Right-hemisphere lesion can cause impairment in dressing due to apraxia; which is the apraxia?

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Dressing apraxia occurs when higher-level motor planning and body representation are disrupted, most often from right parietal lobe damage. This makes it hard to organize and sequence the complex, body-centered actions required to dress oneself, even though there is intact strength and sensation. The patient may have trouble orienting garments to the body or sequencing steps correctly, reflecting a disturbance in how the body and the actions needed to dress are represented in the brain. This is distinct from alien-hand syndrome, where the limb acts involuntarily and is felt as foreign; gait apraxia, which impairs walking due to motor planning issues; and hemi-neglect, which is a failure to attend to one side of space rather than an impairment in planning dressing actions.